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soams

soams is the plural of soam.

Meaning of soam

Noun

soam (plural soams)

  1. A chain by which a leading horse draws a plough.
    • In this mode of yoking, the horses work in unicorn-team, the middle horse pulling by the soam- chain, instead of the swingtree1858, James Slight, Robert Scott Burn, The Book of Farm Implements and Machines
  2. A short rope used to pull the tram in a coal-mine.
  3. A horse-lead.

Questions about soams

What is soams the plural of?
Soams is the plural of soam.

Words near soams in the dictionary

  1. soal
  2. soals
  3. soam
  4. Soames
  5. Soameses
  6. soams
  7. Soane
  8. Soans
  9. Soanses
  10. soap
  11. soap acacia

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